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I continue herewith with sharing my contemporary state-of-grok [1] of the up to now four [2] scriptures of the aka newtau[3]. Sorry for the delay, but it comes mostly from the efforts to contain the outburst of words, catalyzed by the very exegetic process of such a rich content, into a reader-friendly shorter form.

The subject of vivisection textographically identifies as the first three paragraphs of ''Tau and the Crisis of Truth'', Ohad Asor, Sep 11, 2016 [4].

The four core themes extracted are ennumerated bellow, with as modest as not to sidetrack the thought and to not spoil the original message, streak of comments of mine.:

I. LAW

As I guy who's immersed in Law for more than quarter of century [5] I can swear with both hands on my heart in the notion of unknowability of Law.

Since my youth years in the law school [6] I was asking myself how it is possible at all to have 'rule of law' [7] in case any legal system ever known required humans to operate !?

It seemed that the only requisite or categorcal difference between mere arbitrary 'rule of man' [8] and the 'rule of law' was that in some isolated cases some ruling men happened to be internally programmed by their morals [9] to produce 'rule of law' appearance effects by 'rule of man' means.

Otherwise 'rule of law' done via 'rule of man' poses extremely serious threats of law to be used by some to exploit and harm others.

In that line of thoughts my conclusion was that the Law is ... yet to come.

What we know as Law is not good networking protocol software of mankind as such, but rather we see comparatively rare examples of individually well programmed ... lawyers.

On the wings of a technological breakthrough, just like: flying came with the invention of airplanes and moonwalk needed the advent of rocketry, or to remember without to stay alive - the writing. The Law is an old dream. If we judge by the depth of the abyss of floklore - one of the humanity's most ancient dreams, indeed. Needless to repeat myself that this was what sucked me into Tau as relentlessly as a black hole spagetification [10] :)

The referred by Ohad frustration by Law of the great Franz Kafka [11] expressed in his book The Trial[12] becomes very understandable for Kafka's epoch lacking the comforting hope in a technology which we already have -the computers- and the overall progress in the field of logic, mathematics, engineering ... forming a self-reinforcing loop centered around this sci-tech of artificial cognition.

Similarly to the nuclear fusion, which is always few decades away, but the Fusion gap closes noticeably nowadays [13], we are standing on the cliff of a Legal gap.

The mankind's heavy involvement in cognition technologies, especially in the last several decades, outlined multiple promising directions of further development, which seem to bring us closer to abilities to compensate the fundamental deficiencies of Law and in fact to finally bring it into existence.

It took entire Ohad Asor, however, to identify the major reasons why the Law is bottlenecked out of our reach yet, and to propose viable means to bridge us through that Legal gap... The other side is already in sight.

II. WORDS

It is in the first place the language to blame !

The human natural language [14]. Our most important atribute as species. The mankind maker. The glue of society. It just emerged, it hasn't been created. It has rather ... patterns, vaguely conventional, than intentionally coined set of solid rules. There ain't firm rules to change its rules, either ... The natural human language is mostly wilderness of untamed pristine naked nature, dotted here and there with very expensive and hard to install and maintain ''arteftacts'' [15]. Leave it alone out of the coercion of state mass media, mass education and national language institutes and it falls back into host of unintelligible dialects. Even when aided by the mnemonic amplifier which we call writing.

Ambiguity is characteristic of the natural language, a feature in poetry and politics, but a deadly bug in logic and law.

We'll put aside for now the postulate of impossibility of a single universal language to revisit it later when its exegetic turn comes. In another chapter onto another scripture. Likewise, not in this chapter we'll cover the neurological human bottlenecks which are targetted to be overcome by Tau. Lets observe the sequence of author's thoughts and to not fast forward.

Instead of that I'll dare to share with you my own hypothesis about why the natural human languages are so. (I'm smiling while I type this, cause I can visualize Ohad's reaction upon reading such frivolous lay narrative. I hope he being too busy will actually not to.) To say that the human languages are just too complex does not bring us any nearer to decent explanation. Many logic based languages are more than a match of the natural human ones in terms of expressiveness and complexity. It shouldn't be that reason.

My suspicion is rather that the natural human languages pose such a Moravec hardness [16] for being not exactly languages. Languages are conveyors of meaning. Human languages convey not meaning, but indexes or addresses or tags of mind states. The meaning is the mind state. Understanding between humans is function of not only shared learnt syntaxi, but also of shared lives. Of aggregation of similar mind states which to be referred by matching word keys.

If this is true it is another angle for grokking the solution of human users leaning towards the machine by use of human intelligible Machinish, instead of Tau waiting the language barrier to be broken and machines to start speaking and listening Humanish.

In a nutshell we yet wait the Law to come cuz Law is not doable in Humanish. Bad software. And the other side of the no-law coin is that the humans are no cognitive ASICs [17]. We do congnition only meanwhile and in-order-to do what other animals do - to survive. Bad hardware.

In order law to become law it must become handsfree [18].

Not humans to read laws, but laws to read laws.

The technology to enable that looks on an arm's length.

III. TRUTH

Ok, so far we butchered the law and the language. What's left?

The nature and essence of human language brought one of the most harmful and devastating notions ever. Literally, a thought of mass destruction.

The ''crisis of truth''. The wasteland left by the toxic idea spilover of ''there is no one truth'' or even ''there ain't truth'' at all. This is not only abstract, philosophical problem. Billions of people actually got killed for somebody else's truth.Not occasionally the philosophers who immersed themselves into this pool are nicknamed 'Deconstructivist' [19]. Following back their epistemic genealogy, we see btw, that they are rooted rather in faith than in reasoning, but this is another story.

The general problem of truth, of which the problem of law is just a private case, opens up two important aspects:

Number one, is that all knowledge is conjectural to truth and that, truth is an asymptotic boundary - forever to close on but never to reach. Like speed of light or absolute zero. Number two, is that human languages make pretty lousy vehicles to chase the truth with.

If really words are just to match people's thoughts together, then there are thoughts without words and words without thoughts. Words mismatch thoughts, so how to expect they to bridge thoughts to things? Entire worlds on nonsensical wording emerge, dangerously disturbing the seamless unity of things and thoughts. Truth displaced.

''But can we at least have some island of truth in which social contracts can be useful and make sense?''[4]

This island of shared truth is made of consensus [20] bedrock and synchronization [21] landmass.

Thuth and Law self-enforced. From within instead of by violence from without. And in self-referenial non-regressive way.

IV. NOMIC

''We therefore remain without any logical basis for the process of rulemaking, not only the crisis of deciding what is legal and what is illegal." [4]

Peter Suber with his ''The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change'' [22] proposed a rulemaking solution which he called Nomic [23].

''Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move.'' [22]

The merit of Nomic is that it really eliminates the illths of the infinite regress [24] of laws-of-changing-the-laws-of-changing-the-laws, ad infinitum, by use of transmutable self-referrenial rules. But Nomic suffers from number of issues - the first one, in the spotlight of that chapter, being the fact that we still remain with the “crisis of truth” in which there is no one truth, and the other ones - like sclability of sequencing and voting - we'll revisit in their order of appearance in the discussed texts.

The aka 'newtau' [3] went past the inherent limitations of the Nomic system and resolves the 'crisis of truth' problem.

The next few chapters will dive into Decidability and how it applies to provide solution to the problems described above.

De Lege Ferenda [1] is a series. Like the Tauchain Exegesis [2], [3] is. One train of articles.

This is the introductory 'locomotive' article where I attempt to nail down the essential basics. This is nontrivial cause it requires compression of very long stream of thoughts and research. Spanning literally decades. In that sense some of the overcompressed categorical statements are also cognitive ''letters of credit'' [4] or ''promisory notes'' [5] - comprising debt of mine for future separate more detailed explanations to come. I'm afraid this is the only way the theses and conclusions of mine to be expressed in a reader-friendly way. Of course, questions and comments as mutual understanding accelerator are as always more than welcome.

Three ''angles of attack'' [6], in roman numerals and capitals in pure latin (the lingua franca [7] of law :) bellow:

I. LEX

Maybe I [8], [9] already tired you with repeating my incantation of:

Law is Between, Code is Within [10], [11]

It is quite multi-dimensional in meanings and multi-disciplinary in consequences but here it comes to denote the unavoidability of Law. Rendered down to the most basic physics we currently know:

The Pauli exclusion principle [12] - beings and things are humanly all electronic i.e. fermionic [13] , thus they are forbidden to coinhabit one and a same spacetimes. That means things and beings can't be really each other, therefore they must make each other to - fundamental physical necessity of the external enforcement [14] of states. ( Trust is Force = 'you can trust only as much as you can make to' )

&

The mutual uncertainty [15] on each other's states projected as free will [16], and the very entropic mutual information [17] ('inform' is a verb, information is a process of change, synonymous with time) nature of this domain, leads again to superior force needed for governance of and between all those peers of behavioral complexity - humans and their collectives.

This is the way and reason why Law is enforceable and Code is executable. And the major categorial difference between them which makes the notion of 'code is law' [18] utter nonsense, as well as, it seems, also destroys the very basis of the notion of 'smart contracts' [19]. But this belongs to bunch of other series of mine to come ...

Even if it was theoretically possible all effectors [20] to become one, there'd still be internal uncertainty fragmentation and thus unavoidability of enforcement.

Leaving this head-dizzying fundamental cognitive datum [21] and heading up across the higher abstraction epistemic layers [48] we reach the surface to take a swallow of fresh air to:

Nothing, read my lips, NO-THING in crypto or blockchain has ever been or could possible be extralegal.

Cuz there ain't a thing in any blockchain aspect which is not ... physical. Hence beyond the scope of Law.

Blockchain is most probably the arrival of the expected Hanson engine [22], or Szabo booster [23], or ultimate Clusivity management tool [24]. Which makes it extremely important domain for proper legal treatment and regulation - both as taxonomy within the existing institutes of Law [25] - lex lata, and as creation of novel norms to cater it - lex ferenda [1].

(as a side note: expectedly the novel collective mnemonic technologies knows under the umbrella term of 'crypto' provide positive feedback loop to strengthen the Law, too - Tauchain [26] seems to promise [27] the advent of law, at last, as consistent and decidable set of rules, for first time ever.)

II. IURIS DICTIO

Law being inherently about physical, is also about spatiotemporal, i.e. about geography / geopolitics. It is always territorial even when it is cross-border applicable by the virtue of international law or internal rules to resolve inter-jurisdictional normative collisions.

The known world (I deliberately do not say: the planet, the Earth, or the globe because of ... of course - the Outer Space Law [28] !), is tessalated geographically into jurisdictions [29], [30]. Countries or nations. The pattern pixels of the universal human jursdictional cellularity. But borders not as much divide as they connect.

The world is internet of jurisdictions no matter how yet primitive are the networking protocols and architecture. And because due to topological defficiencies this can not yet be a geodesic network [31] - some jurisdictions are special. And among the special there are some which are even more special than the merely special ones. The specialness stems from the fact of what a jurisdiction enjoyed gives to its user.

After decades of observation and practice and comparative studies I reached the conclusion that THE jurisdiction is the Principality of Liechtenstein ! [32]

Mere ennumeration of its features and the sheer lack of bugs would occupy a sizeable volume. Liechtenstein is not just an island periphery money hideout of an old fat imperial metropoly - it is a HUB. It is immersed [33] right into the middle of the healthiest-wealthiest community of EU [34].

What starts in Liechtenstein does not stay in Liechtenstein but swiftly propagates into the giant space of EEA [35]. It is a keyhole jurisdiction straight into this most giant jurisdiction of jurisdictions - so strong in soft power [36] and so influential that even the FAMGA [37] seem to reckon Europe more than their own home jurisdiction [38].

Liechtenstein is simultaneously with deepest and most stable roots in the best of history and geography and is most advanced and ahead in the making of legislation of a highest probe of adequacy.

It does in 2018 - what I (and just a few others) predicted years ago to happen. We must herein admit that other jurisdictions do have some timid try-outs for legal codification of the blockchain but nothing compares with the comprehesive and in-depth approach of the Principality's legislators.

On 28th of August 2018 Liechtenstein published [39] a draft [40] of the new Blockchain Act:

<< On 28 August 2018, the Ministry for General Government Affairs and Finance of Liechtenstein published the consultation report on the new Blockchain Act (Act on Transaction Systems based on Trustworthy Technologies (VT) (Blockchain Act; VT Act; VTG)).

The government has decided to regulate not only the current Blockchain-applications (in particular cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs)), but also to establish a legal basis for the entire scope of application of the token economy according to a long-term approach, which should also meet the needs of future generations. >>

The basic provisions of the Liechtenstein Blockchain Act are exposed yet only in German language - which I'm not at all in command of and a language quite indgestable by the Google Transalte AI.

The consultation period ends on 16 November 2018, i.e. less than 2 months left from today.

My modest intention is by this De Lege Ferenda series of articles to provide my comments and opinions to 'whom it may concern' on the upcoming Liechtenstein Blockchain Act.

Every result has its cause, often hidden in the ocean of data what past is, and quite hard to distinguish.

US has its Captain America [42]. Liechtenstein is lucky to have its Mr Liectenstein [43].

Andreas Erick Johannes Kohl Martinez of the House of Sequence [44]. Remember that name.

Since the dawn of the blockchain era, I'm under the strong conviction that Liechtenstein is the true Crypto Valley [45] of the globe. So is Andreas, too. Purely by chance it occured that we both - long time before we knew eachother - have this astronomically improbable coincidence or synchronicity [46] of this and multitude of other thoughts.

A thesaurus [3] of all the public writings by the very Blockchain creator - the pseudonimous Satoshi Nakamoto [4].

Still unexcelled by anything so far! For almost an entire decade - of our fast time, guys! - corresponding to a full millennium of the previous doubling rate mode, and to a quarter million years before that, or to 30 MYs [5] in prehuman time - as measured in Hanson units [6] or in log-scale man-years [7]!! It took about as much to decode all the human genome [8]! ​

''Impressive. Most impressive [9]''.

The First Book of the Crypto Bible. :)

We witness [10], literally in real time, the powerful coalescence of the Second Book. The Book of Ohad [11].

Leaving the pompous tone behind ... maybe driven initially from attempt to compensate the anxiety of the heavy official responsibility - I have the honor and pleasure to face the highly non-trivial task to do Exegesis [12] of the following three milestone documents of Ohad Asor:

The method chosen is to put emphasis on the main points of the three texts above by extracting them into few dozens of explanatory Chapters. Plus careful selection of tutorial materials as provided resources.

No, Ohad will not control or edit me, but the reward is that if I make it, these Exegetic articles will enter the official Tau website blog.

Wish me luck!

And because ''Tau is discussion about Tau'' - I strongly rely upon your support. Your comments. Lets talk it over, lets argue! - nothing is more meaning revealing, i.e. growing the shared understanding, than a really good conversation.

The periodics? I intend to be beaming the episodes of the Exegesis series on the Mondays. Stay tuned!

To zoom out is useful. It puts the events networks of our spacetime in perspective. Including on what the great Jorje Luis Borges was calling the Orbis Tertius [1]:​

''ORBIS TERTIUS. "Tertius" (Latin = third) is an allusion to: World 3: the world of the products of the human mind, defined by Karl Popper.''

Poetically stated, ''retrodiction studies'' [2], [3], [4] enables us to get a glimpse on the "clear, cold lines of eternity".

Back in 20th century Prof Robin Hanson put together this extremely insightful and strong document [5].​

Long-Term Growth As A Sequence of Exponential Modes,

First Version 9/11/98, Revised 5/03/00, Substantially renewed 12/00

Economy grows. [see: Footnote]. Unstoppable.

Hanson's unprecedented contribution was to provide us with systematic orientation tool on how and why economy grows.

It accelerates. See:

Mode Doubling Date Began Doubles Doubles Transition

Grows Time (DT) To Dominate of DT of WP CES Power

---------- --------- ----------- ------ ------- ----------

Brain size 34M yrs 550M B.C. ? "16" ?

Hunters 224K yrs 2000K B.C. 7.3 8.9 ?

Farmers 909 yrs 4856 B.C. 7.9 7.6 2.4

Industry 6.3 yrs 2020 A.D. 7.2 >9.2 0.094​

The model identifies the past economy accelerators as.:

- neural networks, evolving into doubling brain size each 30-ish megayears (hinting that human level of intelligence is an inevitability: +/-30 millions of year around the Now, by the virtue of the good old 'coin-toss' Darwinian algorithm alone.)

- human as the top-of-the-foodchains predator since around 2 000 000 BC. (maybe the human mastering of the Fire and the Blade to blame), compressing the doubling time with over two orders of magnitude down to a quarter of a million of years.

- Food production, ecosystem manipulation (or rather the collimation of farming, horse domestication and writing as accelerator components), leading to less than 40 human generations per economy doubling.

- All we know as division of labor, specialization, systematized Sci-Tech... industry - the centralized ways for production and control of knowledge leading to another hundreds-fold compression down to mere ~decade of economy doubling time.

My observation about networks in general is a rather obvious one when you think about it: our social structures map to our communication structures. As intuitive as it is to understand, this observation provides great insight into where the technology of computer assisted communication will take us in the years ahead.

Connectivity specs as indicator and drive.

Now, when we leave the past and use these models to gaze into the future, the really interesting stuff comes out.

Aside from giving explanation to the, detected by Brad DeLong in his also monumental paper [6], overall trajectory of the economy, the nucleus of meaning in the Rob Hanson's paper is:​

Typically, the economy is dominated by one particular mode of economic growth, which produces a constant growth rate. While there are often economic processes which grow exponentially at a rate much faster than that of the economy as a whole, such processes almost always slow down as they become limited by the size of the total economy. Very rarely, however, a faster process reforms the economy so fundamentally that overall economic growth rates accelerate to track this new process. The economy might then be thought of as composed of an old sector and a new sector, a new sector which continues to grow at its same speed even when it comes to dominate the economy.

Visualize: a Petri dish and sugar being expanded in size and quantity by the accelerating growth of the bacterial culture in it.

In the CES model (which this author prefers) if the next number of doubles of DT were the same as one of the last three DT doubles, the next doubling time would be ... 1.3, 2.1, or 2.3 weeks. This suggests a remarkably precise estimate of an amazingly fast growth rate. ... it seems hard to escape the conclusion that the world economy will likely see a very dramatic change within the next century, to a new economic growth mode with a doubling time perhaps as short as two weeks.

An economy accelerator avalanche is roaring down the slope of time towards us. A brand new Hanson Engine is about to leave the assembly line.

Tau, is that you?

FOOTNOTE: To wrap up the above statements in the flesh of the deep thesaurus of content onto which they lie, would conservatively consume hundreds of pages. Even if only briefed. I promise to come back to these subtopic meaning expansions (by referring back to here) with series of posts in the months to come to tie up with the notions of.: economy as a network, network as computer, what exactly it processes and outputs, economy (like the universe or life) being endogenously driven positive feedback loop self-amplifying non-equilibrium entropic combinatorial explosion system, the wealth as economy complexity growth in relation with GDP size and the intimate connection of dollars-joules in energy intensity, physical and economic limits of growth, self-reinforcing predator-pray models, knowledge as synonymous with skill and so forth, economic cycles upon the DeLong curve ... to name a few. Readers questions and comments will of course help a lot with the subtopics prioritization, and will boost (incl. mine) understanding. Thank you in advance!

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